Memorial to Maria Watkinson

Halifax Parish Church

H. M. Memoriæ sacrum MARIÆ, filiæ Unicæ Revdi Dni Edvardi Watkin- son, Capellæ de Luddenden in hac Vicaria Curt, Quæ Nata Ves- peri præcedente Pasca, Anno 1723, febre perquam maligna Correpta Occidit (heu nimium fugax et multum flebilis) Au- gusti xxivta MVCCXXVIo

This monument is erected in memory of Maria, only daughter of Rev Edward Watkinson, Vicar at Luddenden Chapel. She was born the evening before Easter 1723, and died of a terrible fever (alas gone too quickly and greatly lamented)  August 24th 1726